A few weeks ago I left Cisco to join a FAANG company. I wish the decision to leave Cisco would have been harder; I truly liked being an employee of Cisco. There are many things to love about Cisco. The culture of caring was top notch. I felt the... — read more 

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/cisco-turns-off-lights-on-smart-city-push-11609178895 "Cisco Systems Inc. is pulling the plug on a flagship effort to help digitize the modern city, the latest example of a big tech company struggling to enter a... — read more 

After the exodus of strong leaders in the summer the enterprise product mgmt team is now being run by amateurs who have absolutely no idea on what it takes to run multi-billion dollar businesses. Some even got promoted to senior leadership positions... — read more 

As we touched on above, Cisco Systems, Inc. is currently paying its CEO higher than the median pay for CEOs of companies belonging to the same industry and with similar market capitalizations. But the company lacks EPS growth, and returns to... — read more 

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cisco-oracle-ibm-workers-anxious-about-job-cuts/2020/12/

I was such an id–t. I thought as long as I went above and beyond the company would see what a valuable asset I can be - then I was hit in the last round of layoffs. No one is safe here. I’ve seen people with more years of experience than I laid off... — read more 

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/ciscos-svp-of-security-jumps-ship-for-google-anthos/2020/12/

Why do people keep complaining about working long work weeks at Cisco? Working 50-60 hour weeks is nothing. Bill Gates would put in 90 hour weeks when starting Microsoft. Elon Musk claims to put in 120 hour weeks between his companies. Those are a... — read more 

If you are LRed take it in stride. It just means: You will no longer have to worry over stress and anxiety inducing quarterly and annual CSCO LR's You will no longer have to worry about mgrs who are never held accountable You no longer... — read more 

Documented on Page 79 of Proxy Statement on Cisco Investor Page along with audio replay

Cisco Systems Inc.’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) operations chief has left his position, the San Jose networking giant disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday... — read more 

5k are already LR/ER'd. According to Washington Post, that is part of 8000 contingent to be let go. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/12/16/cisco-has-cut-3-500-jobs-since-covid-19-hit.html

I keep seeing multiple news organizations mentioning that employers can in fact require their employees to receive the Rona vaccine. I have seen a post previously mention that it is already being considered by Cisco HR. Cisco is a very progressive... — read more 

Sales quotas have been lowered for some groups due to COVID, but is this a sign of what’s to come for the Sales org? News of layoffs in this org have been suspiciously quiet compared to the technical side, while other similar companies are letting go... — read more 

"Cisco Systems this week revealed it is letting go 101 employees from its San Jose, Calif., headquarters following months of speculation that more job cuts were coming as part of its restructuring effort... — read more 

First of all, I saw another article about more layoffs at Cisco and eventually found my way to this website. Second, (after bumping into a former colleague at a grocery store in Sunnyvale), I also learned of an interesting scenario. And so, I will... — read more 

No doubt the designers/testers who would have caught this bug were LR'd. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/wormable-zero-click-vulnerability-in-cisco-jabber-gets-patched-a-second-time/

Any insights on the package range for Grade 11 in Germany? And what other benefits are on top?

Has anyone consulted an employment attorney (after the fact) and if so, who and what was the outcome? Will the verbage of the separation agreement automatically indicate that nothing can be done? The bottom line is this. It seems as those being... — read more 

Cisco Makes Two Big Acquisitions to Take on Zoom The company will become part of WebEx to further Cisco's contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) platform. The company will use the platform's... — read more 

Make a word from these letters... https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/07/cisco-acquires-slido-to-improve-qa-polls-and-engagement-in-webex-videoconferencing/

Cisco requested that staff vote for Chuck in the Fierce Wireless "Most Powerful People" survey on Dec 6. On Dec 7, Chuck had already been eliminated...fierce wireless.com/wireless/fiercewireless-2020-most-powerful-people-wireless. The market knows... — read more 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-lawsuit-against-facebook-discriminating-against-us-workers This should be done for Cisco also

The largest round of recently revealed layoffs linked to coronavirus woes is occurring at The Claremont Hotel Club & Spa in Oakland. “An unanticipated... — read more 

What is the exit date for folks notified in phase 2 on Dec 2nd if you are on Visa? I heard it is different!

Many of Cisco employees not happy with recent reorganization are doing prep to leave Cisco and join Amazon google Facebook Microsoft etc

Cisco is now a big angry boy with grown-ups around like PaloAlto. https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/fortinet-check-point-palo-alto-networks-top-gartner-firewall-report/2020/11/ Is this is surprise?

18 of impending layoffs under WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining... Stanford University told the Labor Department in August it planned to layoff... — read more 

for those who took the WTO aka voluntary leaving, are you applying for unemployment benefits. California law does not count severance for purposes of unemployment, it is considered as payment for past services. I am planning to apply, wondering if i... — read more 

Now that SFDC is buying Slack, wonder if Cisco will bother anymore with this product.

I accepted the volunteer transition, and my last d official day at Cisco was yesterday. Today I remembered I had created a PowerPoint template that I liked and tried to make a copy (no sensitive information) to a flash drive for my own records. The... — read more 

Is it me or is this program a total waste! Every case is the sales team crying about unhappy customers and demanding that we send millions in equipment and services. On the customer side it's always bad configuration or issue outside of Cisco gear... — read more 

I left Cisco a few months ago for a smaller company. I have to say that my interviewer was more impressed that I had Cisco on my resume than he was with my qualifications. He even admitted as such to me. I have to hand it to Cisco. Although it’s a... — read more 

The rates are insanely high through Cisco’s transition plans, so I guess just hit open market? Any guidance?

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Do you predict that there will be Cisco Layoffs 2021? Any news or rumors?

Can you choose your last working day if you are notified about the LR ? or is it mandatory to work till jan 4th?

The day is coming, already i see a direct deposit. I thought it will initiate only after we sign the docs. We can even decline tomorrow or upto 1 week from tomorrow. I think it is PTO+last 2 weeks pay+ESPP balance. yet to find a job, market has... — read more